The Social Science Research Council has announced that Scott Appleby, Qamar-ul Huda, Cecelia Lynch, Ebrahim Moosa, and Danilyn Rutherford will lead its 2011 Religion and International Affairs Dissertation Workshop. The SSRC will continue to accept applications for the workshop through March 15, 2011:
The SSRC program on religion and the public sphere will convene twelve advanced graduate students and five distinguished professors for a five-day dissertation workshop on religion and international affairs. The workshop will provide participants with a unique opportunity to share their ongoing work and to receive critical feedback from their peers as well as from established leaders in the field. During the course of the workshop, students will lead discussions of their own projects and will entertain critiques and suggestions from both student and faculty participants on their fieldwork or research plans, writing strategies, and conceptual frameworks. Prior to the workshop, participants will prepare synthetic essays incorporating what they take to be the key methodological and thematic issues in each of the projects to be presented at the workshop. These synthetic papers will also be presented at the workshop and will help to orient discussions.The SSRC Workshop on Religion and International Affairs is open to students from all fields in the social sciences and humanities whose research engages the study of international/world affairs, transnational politics and civil society, and global socioeconomic development, with a particular emphasis on religion. Specific thematic areas may include (but are not limited to): religion, conflict, and peacebuilding; religion and gender in international perspective; religion, development, and modernization; religion, pluralism, and human rights; and religion, secularism, and democratic politics in comparative international perspective. Students whose projects do not fall neatly into one or more of these categories but nonetheless engage centrally and substantially with religion as a factor in international affairs are encouraged to apply.
The workshop will be held June 5-9, 2011 at the Asilomar Conference Center in Pacific Grove, California. Eligibility and application requirements can be found here.